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as_usual

as usual

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as usual

  1. As is usually the case.
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter IX”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; []. Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
    • 2008, Firdaus E. Udwadia and Robert E. Kalaba, Analytical Dynamics: A New Approach, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521048338, p.83:
      [] and, the 3n by 3n matrix M is, as usual, diagonal with the masses occurring down the main diagonal in sets of three [].

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